Portland OR: Timber Press, 2015. Octavo, laminated boards, black and white illustrations. This must-have reference will help all gardeners navigate the complex world of science. It defines more than 6,000 words from 16 branches of science that are of particular interest to gardeners, from abscission (a plant's rejection of an... More

New York: Sterling Publishing, 2012. Quarto, paperback, colour illustrations. This book allows readers a privileged glimpse of seldom seen, fully illustrated scientific tomes from the American Museum of Natural History's Rare Book Collection. Forty essays from the museum's top experts in a variety of natural science disciplines, from anthropology to... More

London: Imperial College Press, 2000. Octavo, dustwrapper, maps. A magnificent contribution to ornithological history in the United Kingdom. Includes all known books, pamphlets and papers which contain substantial studies of the birds of local areas. Each county has an introduction on its boundaries and the history of its ornithology.More

London: New Holland Publishers, 2017. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, line drawings. The universal system of ‘scientific’ names, based largely on Greek and Latin, is used in all good bird books and assists birdwatchers around the world in figuring exactly what they are looking at. While some of the names are..... More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. Quarto, illustrations, a fine set. Over the course of five decades, the seventeenth-century naturalist Georgius Everhardus Rumphius assiduously gathered information on the native plants of Ambon Island and its archipelago. By presenting descriptions of the plants and their multiple uses, he succeeded in creating... More

London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2015. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. New Naturalist. The Collins New Naturalist series is the longest-running and arguably the most influential natural history series in the world with over 100 volumes published in over 60 years. Being a numbered series, with a very low print run... More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour and black and white photographs, illustrations, maps. Provides an engaging and authoritative history of modern ornithology, describing the visionary and often-controversial personalities who have influenced the study of birds, and the unique social and scientific contexts in which these extraordinary individuals worked... More

London: Manson Publishing, 2010. Quarto, laminated boards, colour photographs. Subject areas covered include ecology and conservation, tree anatomy and evolution, pathology, silviculture, propagation and surgery. The different chapters cover trees from various world habitats, from northern boreal and montane coniferous forests to tropical and subtropical rainforests. The book is fully... More

Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2017. Octavo, paperback, colour and black and white photographs. "An exquisitely beautiful book ...These stories about birds are ultimately reflections on the curious nature of humanity itself"- Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk. There is no denying that many people are crazy for... More

Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2002. Octavo, paperback, BRAND NEW. This is a devastating expose about how we are polluting our environment with the pharmaceuticals that Western medicine has developed to heal us. Yet, as we foul our air and water with toxic residues, we overlook the power of the planet's... More

New York: Dover Publications, 2017. Octavo, paperback, BRAND NEW. At the turn of the 20th century, John Burroughs ranked among America's most popular authors. The distinguished naturalist possessed a special gift for sharing his close observations in an engaging style that combines scientific accuracy with a grand poetic expression. This... More

Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. In the first full-length study to reproduce all of Wilson's unpublished drawings for the nine-volume American Ornithology, Edward Burtt and William Davis illustrate Wilson's pioneering and often underappreciated achievement as the first ornithologist to describe the birds of the North... More

Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2013. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs and illustrations, maps. Between 23 April and 28 June 1861, Wills documented the torments and disappointments that led to his and Burke’s destruction. Surprising to many, Wills was not the second-in-command but, rather, the party’s ‘surveyor, astronomical and meteorological observer’..... More

London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs and illustrations. Why are owls regarded either as wise or as harbingers of doom? What gave rise to the fanciful belief that storks bring babies? Why is the eagle associated with victory or the hummingbird with paradise? The answers are here... More

Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2011. Octavo, publisher's boards, colour photographs. A beautifully illustrated book that uncovers the fascinating stories of animals great and small. These are the animals that have played a central role in the evolution of humankind and modern society, but remain at the periphery of our... More

Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2016. Quarto, publisher's boards, colour illustrations. When English naturalist Joseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his historic mission into the Pacific, he took with him a team of collectors and illustrators who returned with unprecedented collections of artefacts, specimens and drawings, opening up a whole world of... More

Sydney: New South Books, 2016. Octavo, paperback, BRAND NEW. The annual collection celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing. From the furthest reaches of the universe to the microscopic world of our genes, science offers writers the kind of scope other subjects simply can't match. Good writing about science... More

New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. In this charming book, Billy Collins, joins with David Allen Sibley, America's foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the winged creatures that have inspired so many poets for centuries. From Catullus and Chaucer to Robert Browning and James Wright, poets have... More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. Large octavo, dustwrapper, photographs, illustrations. This fascinating book tells the story of how one museum changed ideas about dinosaurs, dynasties, and even the story of life on Earth. The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, now celebrating its 150th anniversary, has remade the way... More

Lewes: Ivy Press, (2017. second edition), Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. A visually stunning and scientifically engaging guide to six hundred of the most impressive and beautiful leaves from around the world. Each leaf is reproduced here at its actual size in full-colour photographs taken on a light box and... More

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (2003. reprint). Octavo, paperback, illustrations. This perennial favourite is copiously stocked with now classic botanical illustrations and is one of the most fascinating and original introductions to the world of plants ever produced.More